[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7?idea:?off-grid darknet!

2008-05-19 Thread Florent Daignière
* Matthew Toseland [2008-05-19 12:58:24]: > > > > > software on people's machines which we didn't write, and which for all > > > > > we know could contain well hidden code to delete their hard disks on > > > > > July 4th just for a laugh. If we install this software, WE ARE > > > > > RESPONSIBL

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea:?off-grid darknet!

2008-05-19 Thread Florent Daignière
* Matthew Toseland [2008-05-19 11:47:16]: > On Sunday 18 May 2008 05:17, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > * Ian Clarke [2008-05-17 13:35:40]: > > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Toseland > > > wrote: > > > >> Exactly, which is why Thaw, Freemail, etc are the apps that will > > > >>

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea:?off-grid darknet!

2008-05-19 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Monday 19 May 2008 12:33, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Matthew Toseland [2008-05-19 11:47:16]: > > > On Sunday 18 May 2008 05:17, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > > * Ian Clarke [2008-05-17 13:35:40]: > > > > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Toseland > > > > wrote: > > > > >> Exac

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-19 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sunday 18 May 2008 05:17, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Ian Clarke [2008-05-17 13:35:40]: > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Toseland > > wrote: > > >> Exactly, which is why Thaw, Freemail, etc are the apps that will > > >> motivate users to use Freenet. Only developers download t

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7?idea:?off-grid darknet!

2008-05-19 Thread Florent Daignière
* Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-19 12:58:24]: > > > > > software on people's machines which we didn't write, and which for all > > > > > we know could contain well hidden code to delete their hard disks on > > > > > July 4th just for a laugh. If we install this software, WE ARE >

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea:?off-grid darknet!

2008-05-19 Thread Florent Daignière
* Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-19 11:47:16]: > On Sunday 18 May 2008 05:17, Florent Daignière wrote: > > * Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-17 13:35:40]: > > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Toseland > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Exactly, which is

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-18 Thread Florent Daignière
* Ian Clarke [2008-05-17 13:35:40]: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Toseland > wrote: > >> Exactly, which is why Thaw, Freemail, etc are the apps that will > >> motivate users to use Freenet. Only developers download the JRE, most > >> users get it bundled with Java apps. The same w

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-17 Thread Florent Daignière
* Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-17 13:35:40]: > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Toseland > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Exactly, which is why Thaw, Freemail, etc are the apps that will > >> motivate users to use Freenet. Only developers download the JRE, most > >> users get

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-17 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: >> Exactly, which is why Thaw, Freemail, etc are the apps that will >> motivate users to use Freenet. Only developers download the JRE, most >> users get it bundled with Java apps. The same will be true of >> Freenet, its a platform, most

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-17 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 May 2008 22:09, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Colin Davis wrote: > >> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet > >> apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is > >> no reason for us to host all of them - tha

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-17 Thread Ian Clarke
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Exactly, which is why Thaw, Freemail, etc are the apps that will >> motivate users to use Freenet. Only developers download the JRE, most >> users get it bundled with Java apps. The same will be true of >> Freenet, it

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-17 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 May 2008 22:09, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Colin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet > >> apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is > >> no reason for us to hos

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Florent Daignière
* Ian Clarke [2008-05-16 09:35:34]: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daigni?re > wrote: > >> But the same argument could be used in my Java analogy. Java has a > >> far higher profile than many apps written in Java, but it doesn't > >> follow that Java should bundle all of these apps.

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 May 2008 15:35, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daigni?re > wrote: > > > > What about fproxy; shall it be separated from fred too ? I think it > > should be a plugin to the node. > > Fproxy is the means through which the node is configured, so it > doesn'

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Florent Daignière
* Ian Clarke [2008-05-16 09:21:10]: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Colin Davis wrote: > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it > > would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready to be promoted > > by application development.. Currently, when Freenet

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Colin Davis wrote: >> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet >> apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is >> no reason for us to host all of them - that is rediculous. Let them >> use sourceforge, or googl

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 May 2008 15:21, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Colin Davis wrote: > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it > > would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready to be promoted > > by application development.. Currently, whe

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Colin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet >> apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is >> no reason for us to host all of them - that is rediculous. Let them >> use so

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
Okay, I'm modifying my compromise solution slightly here: The installer itself should be lean and mean, and not bundle anything apart from the smaller plugins. At the end of the post-install wizard, we show the user a brief explanation of each application, and ask them whether they want it. Tho

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 May 2008 09:53, Jano wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Michael Rogers > > wrote: > That would be a very valuable system, I just don't see what it's got to > do with Freenet. > >>> > >>> Ummm, the fact that it would be a routable small world d

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thursday 15 May 2008 23:09, Colin Davis wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > I do agree that bundling can make user's lives easier, but it should > > be >>client apps bundling Freenet<<, not the other way around. > > > > Ian. > > > > > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agr

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daigni?re > wrote: > >>> But the same argument could be used in my Java analogy. Java has a >>> far higher profile than many apps written in Java, but it doesn't >>> follow that Java should bundle all of these apps. >>> >> Heh

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Davis
> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet > apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is > no reason for us to host all of them - that is rediculous. Let them > use sourceforge, or google code, or set up their own website. > > For the same

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Jano
Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Michael Rogers > wrote: That would be a very valuable system, I just don't see what it's got to do with Freenet. >>> >>> Ummm, the fact that it would be a routable small world darknet? >> >> That's an assumption, not a fact. As far as

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daigni?re wrote: >> But the same argument could be used in my Java analogy. Java has a >> far higher profile than many apps written in Java, but it doesn't >> follow that Java should bundle all of these apps. > > Heh, java has a frozen API... last time I c

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Matthew Toseland wrote: > Strongly agreed. From the point of view of a new user, or a journalist, FMS is > part of Freenet. It is highly unlikely to get any independant publicity, even > if we don't bundle it. All that happens if we don't bundle it is it doesn't >

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Colin Davis wrote: > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it > would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready to be promoted > by application development.. Currently, when Freenet makes a new > revision, that hits Slashdot, R

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daignière > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> But the same argument could be used in my Java analogy. Java has a >>> far higher profile than many apps written in Java, but it doesn't >>> follow that Java should bundle all of these apps

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Davis
> Why are you so obsessed with turning us into Sourceforge for Freenet > apps? If we are successful there could be hundreds of apps, there is > no reason for us to host all of them - that is rediculous. Let them > use sourceforge, or google code, or set up their own website. > > For the same

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 May 2008 15:35, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daignière > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What about fproxy; shall it be separated from fred too ? I think it > > should be a plugin to the node. > > Fproxy is the means through which the node is configu

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Florent Daignière
* Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-16 09:35:34]: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daignière > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But the same argument could be used in my Java analogy. Java has a > >> far higher profile than many apps written in Java, but it doesn't > >> follow that

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Florent Daignière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But the same argument could be used in my Java analogy. Java has a >> far higher profile than many apps written in Java, but it doesn't >> follow that Java should bundle all of these apps. > > Heh, java has a frozen A

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strongly agreed. From the point of view of a new user, or a journalist, FMS is > part of Freenet. It is highly unlikely to get any independant publicity, even > if we don't bundle it. All that happens if we don't bundle

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Florent Daignière
* Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-16 09:21:10]: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Colin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it > > would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready to be promoted > > by application

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 May 2008 15:21, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Colin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it > > would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready to be promoted > > by application developme

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Colin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it > would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready to be promoted > by application development.. Currently, when Freenet makes a new > revision, th

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
Okay, I'm modifying my compromise solution slightly here: The installer itself should be lean and mean, and not bundle anything apart from the smaller plugins. At the end of the post-install wizard, we show the user a brief explanation of each application, and ask them whether they want it. Tho

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Friday 16 May 2008 09:53, Jano wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Michael Rogers > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would be a very valuable system, I just don't see what it's got to > do with Freenet. > >>> > >>> Ummm, the fact that it would be a rou

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Thursday 15 May 2008 23:09, Colin Davis wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > I do agree that bundling can make user's lives easier, but it should > > be >>client apps bundling Freenet<<, not the other way around. > > > > Ian. > > > > > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agr

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-16 Thread Jano
Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Michael Rogers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That would be a very valuable system, I just don't see what it's got to do with Freenet. >>> >>> Ummm, the fact that it would be a routable small world darknet? >> >> That's an assumption, no

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-15 Thread Colin Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: > I do agree that bundling can make user's lives easier, but it should > be >>client apps bundling Freenet<<, not the other way around. > > Ian. > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Michael Rogers wrote: >>> That would be a very valuable system, I just don't see what it's got to >>> do with Freenet. >> >> Ummm, the fact that it would be a routable small world darknet? > > That's an assumption, not a fact. As far as I know there's little reaso

Re: [freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-15 Thread Colin Davis
Ian Clarke wrote: > I do agree that bundling can make user's lives easier, but it should > be >>client apps bundling Freenet<<, not the other way around. > > Ian. > > I can certainly understand where you're coming from, and agree that it would be ideal, but I don't think that Freenet is ready

[freenet-dev] Combating bloat (was: Re: Post 0.7 idea: off-grid darknet!

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Clarke
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Michael Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> That would be a very valuable system, I just don't see what it's got to >>> do with Freenet. >> >> Ummm, the fact that it would be a routable small world darknet? > > That's an assumption, not a fact. As far as I know th